Sex, Gender, and Religion
Josephine Butler Revisited
©2006
Edited Collection
VIII,
198 Pages
Series:
American University Studies , Volume 242
Summary
Sex, Gender, and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited will appeal to readers interested in women’s subjectivity and agency. Josephine Butler (1828-1906) spearheaded campaigns against state regulation of prostitution. A gifted platform speaker, she enthused a variety of British and European audiences, and wrote abundantly about her cause. Contributors revisit Butler after the end of the twentieth century, where she has been fêted, forgotten, and then rediscovered as reformer, mystic, and feminist. Firmly locating Butler within her context, this book breaks new ground by focusing on the role of religion in her life and work, as well as on Butler as (auto)biographer, writing her own self as she writes her campaign.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 198
- Publication Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820481173
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Prostitution Sozialreform Religion Aufsatzsammlung Butler, Josephine Crusade Magdalen Evangelicalism Feminismus International Abolitionist Federation
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2006. VIII, 198 pp.
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